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In New York, Terrorists' Tactic of Choice Strikes Near Scene of 9/11

Article/Op-Ed in CNN

Seth Cohen/Bettmann/CORBIS

Nov. 1, 2017

Peter Bergen wrote for CNNabout the use of vehicles by terrorists, as in the recent attack in Manhattan:

On Tuesday, a
29-year-old Uzbek national committed the first deadly terrorist attack in
Manhattan since two planes, hijacked by members of al Qaeda, destroyed the
World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

The attacker, identified to CNN by law
enforcement sources as Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov, is accused of renting a
truck and using it to mow down bicyclists in lower Manhattan, a few blocks from
the rebuilt trade center. Eight people were killed.

Terrorists, like school shooters, learn from
other attacks. And no tactic has spread more quickly among terrorists in the
West than the use of trucks and other vehicles to carry out mass casualty attacks.